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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Touhig (Lab - Life peer) “How will my staff cope with working with a person with a learning disability?” I am asked. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) None of the front-line staff understood how to look after her at all. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We would also reform jobcentres, with a new focus on tackling the barriers to good employment, devolving - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) help to claim” service delivered independently by Citizens Advice and face-to-face support in local jobcentres - Speech Link

Select Committee
2024-05-14 16:00:00+01:00

Oral Evidence May. 14 2024

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: I acknowledge that you kindly offered our staff sight of informal findings, similar no doubt to the

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Friend knows what a fantastic job his jobcentres do. - Speech Link
2: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) the Minister for that answer and join her in thanking the excellent Department for Work and Pensions staff - Speech Link
3: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) On specific days, jobcentres have been closed due to ongoing industrial action. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) We have increased the staff on applications, redeploying 95 staff from wider DWP work. - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Justice

May. 09 2024

Source Page: MOJ Early Legal Advice Pilot on housing debt and welfare
Document: (PDF)

Found: Providers have reported struggling to retain and hire staff in recent years.

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Ministry of Justice

May. 09 2024

Source Page: Female offender strategy delivery plan: progress report
Document: (ODS)

Found: Operational guidance for working with young women in custody has been published internally for staff

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 09 2024

Source Page: The Evaluation of the Restart Scheme
Document: (PDF)

Found: How effective has communication around mandation and sanct ions been between providers, Jobcentres,

Select Committee
Long Covid Support
 DYE0058 - Disability employment

Written Evidence May. 08 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: full hours within 6 weeks; it just doesn't work, so it's probably why we're haemorrhaging staff

Select Committee
Institute for Employment Studies, Belfast City Council, Health Foundation, Demos, Impetus, Better Society Capital, De Montfort University, and TSI Network

Oral Evidence May. 08 2024

Inquiry: Devolution of employment support
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: Jobcentres need to work much, much better with other local services.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Disability Employment Gap - Wed 08 May 2024

Mentions:
1: None the human resources director is or who procures occupational health services or the kit that their staff - Speech Link
2: Beattie, Colin (SNP - Midlothian North and Musselburgh) Primarily, they were talking about schools and jobcentres. - Speech Link
3: None We tested that with disabled employees, employers and even jobcentres, and they all said that they feel - Speech Link
4: None The Usual Place staff mentioned a couple of people with whom it had worked who had had quite traumatic - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 03 2024

Source Page: Sector-based Work Academy Programme: qualitative case study research
Document: (PDF)

Found: “There should be true accountability on advisers in jobcentres […] for want of a better phrase, you’